Robert G. Ingersoll Quotes

I want to get a farm where I am going to live for the rest of my life. I like the idea of a secluded place.

Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.

I grew up on a farm, and I think I would have come back and done something like that. It's an honest way of life, a conservative way of life, simple way of life.

I would hate to live in the country, unless I was living on a farm.

I want my children to live in the country, to be a part of nature.

It has long been a childhood dream of mine to have a farm.

I never wanted to become an actor. I always wanted to be a farmer and dreamt of owning half an acre of agriculture land.

I live right in the middle of nowhere and I thoroughly enjoy it.

It brings up happy old days when I was only a farmer and not an agriculturist.

Farm life requires teamwork to a greater degree than any other way of life.

I grew up taking care of the pigs. I love this country that, you know, somebody can do something like that.

I was raised on farms by people who didn't have Wal-Mart. They had to make their own sleds, harnesses, clothing, etc.

I had half my family that were farmers, and I was really pretty good at repairing farm equipment. There was certainly a period of time where I would have been happy to do that, just to be a farm equipment repairman in Dalemead, Alberta.

The combine's a great experience, and I'm sure everyone will tell you the same thing. Cool experience, lots of fun, would never want to do it again.

Just to live in the country is a full-time job. You don't have to do anything. The idle pursuit of making a living is pushed to one side, where it belongs, in favor of living itself, a task of such immediacy, variety, beauty, and excitement that one is powerless to resist its wild embrace.

Whether some may like it or not, I am still the farmer that I was born as and will continue to be one.

I feel I would love to close down for a number of years in some way and just be in the country making pork pies and chutneys and never have to poke my head out of the parapet.

I lived a normal life for a number of years. I had kids. I lived up on a farm in Gloucestershire in rural England, and just kind of got back to reality again.

Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.

I take my vacation on the combine and tractor.

It's true that I had a bucolic, truly peaceful childhood, growing up in a house next to our family's orchard. We had a lot of books and art, but no electricity until I was eight years old. Since then, I have seen a lot of inner-city life, though.

I'm from a small town, a farm, a hundred acres.

I'm from a farm town that when I was a kid was about an hour outside of Omaha.

I can't wait to get back to the ranch and go back to easy living.